[spectre] Turbulence Commission: mimoSa
December 7, 2005 Turbulence Commission: mimoSa: Urban Intervention and Information Correctional Machine by Alexandre Freire, Etienne Delacroix, Giuliano Djahdjah, Luis Asa Fagundes, Murmur, Ricardo Ruiz, Romano, and Tatiana Wells http://turbulence.org/works/mimoSa/ Needs the VLC Media Player (see main page for URL) mimoSa is based on the concept that people start to think critically about media when they produce and distribute it themselves. In Brazil, new systems of media production and distribution are crucial to achieving a more just distribution of power and representation. mimoSa is a continuous workshop that moves around Brazilian cities collecting people¹s stories using recycled and reconstructed technologies. The aim of the workshops is to design a machine capable of altering the Brazilian mediascape. During the workshops a group of artists, programmers, and activists create and operate this machine. The machine records stories, stores them in a database, broadcasts them on FM, and records them to CD. It also prints telephone numbers and instructions on city streets and walls so that people passing by are able to access the stories via their mobile phones. mimoSa maps these activities via its web portal from which visitors can access both audio and video interviews. Begun in November 2005, the web site will continue to grow as the artists travel and present workshops in various Brazilian cities; mimoSa will keep walking around until 1 GB of information is loaded to the server. mimoSa: Urban Intervention and Information Correctional Machine is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. COLLABORATORS ALEXANDRE FREIRE: mobile programmer, responsible for setting up the audio mobile server. ETIENNE DELACROIX: MIT fellow and teacher at University of Sao Paulo. Works with discarded computers and other technological garbage. Responsible for assembly of a portable PC and the machine's backbone. GIULIANO DJAHDJAH: free-radio practitioner and documentarian, responsible for workshops and urban interventions. LUÍS ASA FAGUNDES: hacker, PHP, C++ programmer. MURMUR: a group collecting personal stories on mobile phones in Toronto, Canada. Responsible for mobile connectivity. RICARDO RUIZ: media practitioner, responsible for workshops, construction of the machine and urban interventions. ROMANO: radio artist and audio designer, responsible for audio recording. TATIANA WELLS: new media researcher, responsible for urban interventions and collecting stories. For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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Dear friends and fellow spectrites, just a reminder of some basic rules for the spectre-list; this is important to remember, esp. when you normally love attachments, exotic colour fonts and multiple-address posting: The Mailman-software we use is configured to accept: - no HTML, no formatted text, no attachments - messages must be smaller than 40K - you have to post from a subscribed address Messages which don't apply to these rules sometimes get discarded automatically, so if you don't see your messages appearing on the list, try the beauties of plain text. This morning, the list has 992 subscribers. Best regards from Inke and Andreas -- SPECTRE is an open, unmoderated mailing list for media art and culture in Deep Europe. Initiated in August 2001, SPECTRE offers a channel for practical information exchange concerning events, projects and initiatives organized within the field of media culture, and hosts discussions and critical commentary about the development of art, culture and politics in and beyond Europe. Deep Europe is not a particular territory, but is based on an attitude and experience of layered identities and histories - ubiquitous in Europe, yet in no way restricted by its topographical borders. SPECTRE is a channel for people involved in old and new media in art and culture. Importantly, many people on this list know each other personally. SPECTRE aims to facilitate real-life meetings and favours real face-to-face (screen - to - screen) cooperation, test-bed experiences and environments to provoke querying of issues of cultural identity / identification and difference (translatable as well as untranslatable or irreducible). WHAT IS (A) SPECTRE? 1. There's a spectre haunting Europe ... (K. Marx/F. Engels) 2. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.: Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (James Bond 007 movies) 3. spektr was a module of the MIR space station focussing on the research of micro gravity 4. Les Spectres de Marx (J. Derrida) 5. Craig Baldwin's latest movie: Spectres of the Spectrum (2000) 6. to be continued... __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] FW: PDC 2006 Art Track : ParticipART :
-Original Message- From: ACM SIGCHI General Interest Announcements (Mailing List) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elisa Giaccardi Sent: 06 December 2005 23:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CfP: PDC 2006 Art Track : ParticipART : CALL FOR ARTWORKS : ParticipART : 2-4 August, 2006 PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE 2006 Art Track Trento, Italy URL: http://www.participart.org/ ParticipART is an exhibition and discussion platform on participative forms of digital art to be held at MART (Museum of Modern Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy) on 2-4 August, 2006. ParticipART is the novel Art Track of the PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE 2006, Expanding Boundaries in Design, which will take place in Trento, Italy on July 31-August 5, 2006. Since 1990, the PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE (PDC) has been focusing on the design and development of computing and information technologies in diverse social contexts, with the active collaboration of people who use or are affected by these systems. Over the years, our design discussions have been enlivened and enriched by the efforts of musicians, architects, computer graphic designers and artists working across a wide range of disciplines. Artists presenting their work at PDC 2006 will enjoy a rare opportunity to reach a technically expert and socially engaged community of practitioners. *** * * TOPIC We are interested in creative practices that support new roles for visitors/viewers as active spect-actors and co-authors. Artists/designers working in the field of visual, installation, and performative arts are invited to submit projects that allows participants' interactions to become part of a piece of art or performance. Within this framework, submitted projects should address/explore themes related to conference topic Expanding Boundaries in Design. *** * * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submission deadline: January 16, 2006. Please submit a 2 page description of the work you would like to exhibit, with links to previous work, its relation to the theme of PDC 2006, and the specific requirements for display. Send your submission to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * * REVIEWING PROCESS AND PUBLICATION Project submissions will be reviewed and curated by an interdisciplinary group of experts in collaboration with Giorgio Verzotti, chief curator of MART (Museum of Modern Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy, www.mart.trento.it). For accepted works, a 2 page description will be included in the proceedings of PDC 2006 published by ACM in the International Conference series. In addition to the hardcopy form, papers will also be published via the web in ACM's Digital Library. *** * * EXHIBITION AND DISCUSSION Selected projects will be displayed at MART as part of a special event with the opportunity for discussion and feedback from conference participants. *** * * ORGANIZERS Co-chairs: Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (FINLAND) Bo Helgeson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, (SWEDEN) Curator: Giorgio Verzotti, Museum of Modern Art of Trento and Rovereto (ITALY) Art and Science Committee: Debra Cash, National Public Radio and New Century Enterprises, Boston, MA (USA) Elisa Giaccardi, L3D, University of Colorado at Boulder, (USA) Leah Lievrouw, University of California, Los Angeles (USA) Ina Wagner, Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA) --- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv --- Simon Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Professor, Art and Design Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University, UK http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
